Many times at a Board of Directors Meeting things get off track and then motions and procedures are not properly followed. The following is the six steps on how to properly make a motion at a Board of Directors Meeting.
Nationwide homeowners' associations have a poor reputation with the public. Due to the actions of a few individuals I am sure that there have been abuses, mismanagement and waste.
Throughout the years we have seen these types of Board members in our community associations. They are that member who is on the Board of Directors for 'other reasons' than doing what is best for the association.
Board of Directors in community associations are protected from liability in the course of operating and making decisions by what is known by the 'Business Judgment Rule'. The Business Judgment Rule requires that the Board act within a reasonable manner and take the necessary steps to justify their decisions.
Do you have a 'drive by' property manager working for your Community Association? You know, the one that has the Board of Directors, the unit owners, staff and the service personnel frustrated and left to wondering what is going on?
If your association has any employees, employs any contractors or has any outside contractors that may do work for owners while on association grounds, then your association needs to be covered by Workers' Compensation Insurance, in some form.
There is nothing worse in the management business than to negotiate, in good faith, a management contract with a new association, only to have them not do what they had agreed to and blame the management company for their failures!
We are often asked if we have or own subsidiaries that will provide landscape, janitorial, pool, irrigation and tree trimming services to prospective clients. Though it sounds like a logical step to have all of those services under the same property management umbrella, I will explain why this is unwise for an association to consider.
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